Star Wars Chess Sets

I made a new lens for Star Wars fans! So do you like to play chess? If you do then you will surely like some awesome Star Wars chess sets with custom made figures for true fans of Star Wars. Check out my lens by following the previous link and discover some really awesome chess sets with all of your favorite characters rom Star Wars. Below is a preview of one version of these amazing and unique Star Wars chess sets.

Cool Eminem Wallpapers

If you are a fan of Eminem then you'll probably like some really awesome Eminem Wallpapers that you can find on my new Squidoo lens. I decided to make some lenses with wallpapers because my Skyrim Wallpapers lens is already in Tier 1 and it's not even a month old. So I guess that wallpapers can really increase my Squidoo earnings and therefore I'll try to make some lenses with some cool wallpapers and graphics.

So I created a lens with Best Eminem Wallpapers to see how it will rank. Check out the lens and download some really awesome Eminem images for your background. Below is one :)

Skyrim Wallpapers

I created a new Squidoo lens with some really cool and free Skyrim wallpapers and graphics for fans of Elder Scrolls video games. The lens has been published just three days ago and it's already ranked 4.200! Why? Because of the traffic, SEO and clickouts! And I say again, clickouts are one of the most important elements for high ranking on Squidoo and this leads to bigger earnings.

So how do I get so much clickouts on this brand new lens? It's quite simple. I researched keywords for new video games before I create this lens and the keyword Skyrim Wallpapapers has quite a lot of traffic and little competition so I decided to beat this competition and try to make it to the first page of Google. I optimized the lens with proper keywords and then I added previews of wallpapers and link to the full resolution Skyrim wallpapers. I also added some Amazon modules to increase the number of clickouts and maybe get some sales from this lens :)

The success is great! I'm getting a lot of traffic and I'm climbing up the lensrank ladder everyday so I really hope that this lens makes it to the Tier 1.

So go and check out this cool new lens of mine titled Skyrim Wallpapers and get some really awesome wallpapers for free!

Guitar iPhone Cases

Do you like or play the guitar? Do you like iPhones or maybe own one? Then you will most surely like these awesome Guitar iPhone Cases that are great replacements for your old boring iPhone case. I made a Squidoo lens with my top picks and by following the link above you can check out some really cool designs on Zazzle and Amazon, find your favorite new iPhone case and order it online.

Here is one guitar iPhone case that I really really like :)

Classical Romance Electric Guitar iPhone 4 Case by webgrrl
Browse more iphone 4s cases

Forever Alone Meme

Are you feeling alone? No, just kidding :) I need to update you with my new "meme" lens. I made a special Squidoo lens for one of my favorite Internet meme called Forever Alone. It's a part of Rage Guy Memes and it's one of the most popular meme at this time. Check out my lens Forever Alone Meme and find awesome comics, merchandise and some cool facts about this meme and Forever Alone guy.

Below is our Forever Alone guy. Visit the lens for more comics and info and explore a wonderful world of Rage Guy Memes.

Three Simple Tricks to Increase Clickouts

Clickouts are one of the most important factors to improve your lensrank and increase your earnings on Squidoo. The more clickouts you get the biggest the CTR is on your lenses. And the bigger the CTR the higher lensrank this particular lens receive. So you see, clickouts are really important if you want to increase your Squidoo earnings.

Here I want to share 3 simple tricks and steps to increase the number of clickouts on your Squidoo lenses easy and fast. Follow the steps below.

1. Add Link Modules
Link modules are the most popular and cool modules to add some links with descriptions to your lenses. Add link modules somewhere at the beginning of your lens and be sure to include relevant links with good description and titles so visitors would more likely click on them.

2. Add Links in Introduction
Intro photos and intro text are two things that visitors to your lenses see first. Be sure to add some links to this introduction and maybe make it bold.

3. Add Amazon modules
Amazon modules are absolutely great for increasing the number of clickouts on your lenses. Add relevant products and add some interesting and catchy description of these products. When people click on these products this counts as clickout. You can increase the number of your sales and your lensrank as well!

Do you know another cool trick to increase your clickouts? Share your tips in comments below!

Great Christmas Coloring Pages

Looking for some cool coloring pages for Christmas? Want to spend some quality time with your family and children? Check out these amazing Christmas coloring pages that you can download for free and print them online for some great coloring fun! Visit my new lens Christmas Coloring Pages and find great designs of Christmas spirit categorized in many different categories that will help you to find your desired coloring page more easily. You can find Jesus coloring pages, Santa coloring pages, coloring pages of reindeers and many more different designs related to Christmas and this wonderful time of a year. Check out two examples below and visit the lens for more!

Have some fun with Christmas coloring pages!

Ancient Aliens on Squidoo

I am a big fan of ancient aliens theories and Ancient Aliens TV show made by History Channel. The theory suggest that extraterrestrial beings are in contact with our planet for thousands of years already and that some major events in human history are related to these ancient astronauts. The show is really really interesting, full with amazing proofs and scientific facts and the theories are really impressive. So I made 4 lenses to support this show, share the knowledge and help to spread the word about ancient astronauts and theories that connect ancient aliens with our planet Earth and out history.

If you want to find the basic info and introduction to the show I suggest you to check out my first lens about ancient astronauts and Ancient Aliens TV show titled Ancient Aliens TV Show. In this lens you can find out more about the documentary series, check out some amazing intro presentations and plot of the show. When you know what the show is all about I suggest you to check out three lenses below.

1. Ancient Aliens Season 1 - Full Length episodes with description. Watch the entire season 1 on Squidoo for free!
2. Ancient Aliens Season 2 - Watch full length episodes of the second season for free and dig deeper in the forgotten truth and knowledge about ancient astronauts and their connections with our civilization.
3. Ancient Aliens Season 3 - The last season for now. Find all full length episodes of the third season and watch them for free online.

I hope you'll like the show, facts presented and theories exposed. Not all theories are based on facts, some are just speculations and sometimes they're really over reacting by connecting ancient aliens with stuff from our history. But majority of theories and connections are really easy to believe because they're all based with solid proofs, facts and real events from the history.

I hope you'll enjoy watching the show and exploring the amazing theories of ancient aliens and ancient astronauts.

Best Rap Songs about Love

Do you like rap music? Do you also like love songs and songs about romance? Then you will surely like my new lens about Best Rap Love Songs where you can find my list of my favorite rap songs about love and romance. The list is purely my selection but I listen to god music so be sure to check it out to discover some great rap songs about love :)

There are 10 songs on the lens, each has a video where you can listen to the song and a link to iTunes where you can buy the song if you want.


And here is one of the songs from the lens. Visit Top Rap Songs about Love for more songs :)

Best Nikon DSLR Cameras Under $500

Are you interested in buying a digital SLR camera and you don't want to buy some expensive camera that has too much functions and it's too advanced? No worries, there are some really great DSLR cameras available that cost less than $500 and they are good photo gear for their price. Great for beginners and for those who are not yet really familiar with DSLR cameras and digital photography.

I am building my portfolio of photography related lenses on Squidoo and I just made a new lens titled Best Nikon DSLR Cameras Under $500 where I listed great Nikon digital SLR cameras that cost less than 500 dollars and can be bought on Amazon or eBay. Check out the lens to find these cool cameras and find out if there's one that fits your needs as a photographer.

SQUIDUtils Tools and Utilities for Squidoo Lensmasters

SquidUtils is an awesome website with lots of awesome tools and utilities that are really useful and helpful for every Squidoo lensmasters. The site is made by a very awesome lensmaster thefluffanutta and it's used by a lot of Squidoo users who want to develop their lenses and use this tools to make a lot of necessary Squidoo operations simpler and better designed.

I will make a 10 posts long description of this site and tools that you can access for free on SquidUtils. These are tools I recommend to any Squidoo user and I will describe them more detailed on this blog in future posts so you could see what can SquidUtils bring you and how helpful and useful these applications really are.

I will make 10 posts about SquidUtils and a list of these posts is below. I will link the articles and this list when I'll publish each article.

1. Amazon Associates
2. ClickBank Tools
3. Backlinks Checker
4. Lens Health Check
5. RSS Feeds for Squidoo Lensmasters
6. Squidoo Workshop Addon for Firefox and Chrome
7. Advanced Squidoo DashBoard
8. SquidUtils Tag Tool
9. SquidUtils Amazon Posters
10. How to Check your Competition with SquidUtils

Stay tuned for these articles, I promise I will try to write short articles worth reading and articles that will be helpful and easy to understand. I will add guides and images so I hope you'll check out these articles to improve your Squidoo lenses with my SquidUtils reports and guides.

Happy Halloween Lenses

Below is a list of my Squidoo lenses that are published on Happy Halloween magazine on Squidoo. Some cool lenses that you might like, they are all related to Halloween, costume ideas and some other spooky stuff.

Here is a list of my Halloween lenses:

1. Scary Halloween Masks
2. Thor Helmets for Halloween
3. Funny Halloween T-Shirts
4. V for Vendetta Halloween Costumes
5. Angry Birds Costumes
6. Donnie Darko Costume
7. Sexy Cop Costumes for Adult

Check out these lenses and leave a comment if you want. And be sure to leave your Happy Halloween lenses in comments on this post. Just leave a link to your lens below.

Angry Birds Wallpapers

Angry Birds are really popular these days and I have a few lenses on Squidoo related to Angry Birds that rank pretty well. There are Angry Birds toys, Angry Birds games, costumes and other stuff you might like if you're a fan of this popular game.

I suggest you to check out some products related to Angry Birds and maybe make a lens about some cool Angry Birds stuff. Toys sell well and lots of people are searching for Angry Birds stuff online. Give it a shot!

I made a lens with Angry Birds Wallpapers where you can find some really cool and well designed wallpapers, fan art and graphics that feature Angry Birds characters and scenes. It's a great way to design your computer desktop, iPhone, iPad or Android if you're a fan of Angry Birds. Check these graphics and wallpapers and download them for free.

 

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You can also check out my other Angry Birds lenses such as Angry Birds plush toys or Angry Birds Blogger templates.

October 2011 Squidoo Earnings

Here is my Squidoo payment for October 2011 (earned  in August 2011). I can proudly say that this is my biggest payment on Squidoo ever. Almost $400! Awesome :)

My October 2011 earnings are as follows from 103 featured lenses:

Grand Total ~ $381


Follow tips and articles on this blog to learn how you can make money on Squidoo yourself. You can see that I know what I'm talking about :)


This was the biggest payment for Tier 1 lenses since I am a Squidoo member. Lenses ranked from 1 to 2000 received $47,68 and this is really large amount of money for one single lens :)

It's Still Time to Make Halloween Lenses!

And you should definitely make one or two. Or a bunch of Halloween lenses. Halloween is one of the best holidays and one of the best niche for selling stuff on Squidoo and elsewhere online. This is the time of year when you don't need to worry about your lensrank because you will definitely make some sales even if you're not in Tier 1 or Tier 2. Believe me! In this post I want to share some quick tips for making good Halloween lenses on Squidoo and increase your earnings in this spook time of a year.

How to Make a Halloween Lens
If you want to sell something on your lenses you need to explore the market and see what people are buying online for Halloween. Costumes and costume accessories is a wonderful niche and it will surely make you some sales and bring some traffic to your lenses. But my advice is to dig deeper and choose a more specific niche such as Lady Gaga Halloween Costumes, Thor Helmets for Halloween or maybe a lens called How to make Frank Sinatra costume yourself. These are titles that will get your lens found quicker and you will compete with these keywords. But forget about titles such as Halloween Costumes or Buy Costumes Online.

Happy Halloween Magazine

Few posts ago I made a report about the new Squidoo magazine called Happy Halloween. This is an official Squidoo collection of the best Halloween lenses and posts. You can ad your lenses to this magazine by setting topic for your lens to Holidays and Celebrations -> Halloween. Your lenses will be automatically included in this magazine when you do so.

Some lensmasters however don't want to include their lenses in this new magazine because a lot of them report that they are loosing traffic and earnings because the magazine is two weeks old and it does not rank so well yet. So it's your decision. I suggest you to opt some lenses in and leave others out to see how they are doing.

Include Zazzle Modules

If you have a Zazzle store then you should most definitely make some cool and spooky designs and promote them like crazy right now. Folks buy tons of stuff on Zazzle for Halloween and if you work a little bit on your designs you can make quite a lot of sales. But be sure to also include some Zazzle products such as invitation cards and merch on your Squidoo lenses. This will make your lens looks better plus you will maybe make some sales via Zazzle modules. It's worth trying.

Act Now!

This is the most important part if you want to make some profit! Act now and create some lenses! Right now, start right now! Not in a week or after few days! Act now! The Halloween is coming, there are already plenty of nice lenses and dozens of them are being made every day so be sure to catch this train and increase your Squidoo earnings.

Status Icons are New Squidoo Dashboard Feature

Another new cool feature has been added to Squidoo and it really helps you to see what is going on with your lenses and shows you what is need to be done. Status icons on your dashboard show you statuses of your lenses  - green lenses, WIP lenses, locked lenses and lenses with warnings. Check out the screenshot below.

How are these icons going to help you? They help you to do your TO DO list for Squidoo and see what is need to be done. You want most (the best is all) of your lenses marked green in order to have the best Squidoo experience and make money from every lens. Green lenses are features lenses and these are the lenses that make you money on Squidoo.

WIP Lenses

WIP lenses are Work in Progress Lenses. These are Squidoo lenses that are still under construction or lenses that need to be approved by Squidoo team if they get caught in Squidoo spam filter.These lenses are marked with red on your Squidoo dashboard. More lenses you have marked with red the more lenses need to be turned into green!

Locked Lenses

Squidoo lock lenses if they are considered spam, over promotional or maybe just copied content from somewhere else. Once a lens is locked you can still save your lens from being deleted and this new icon will kindly reminds you how many lenses need an urgent modification and edit!

Read the official Squdioo announcement about this new feature and express your opinion about these icons in the comment section below! Do you think this will help you?

New Design and New Goal

This blog has a brand new design and I must say that I am really satisfied with this new look. The template is inspired by Daily Blog Tips, a very cool blog about blogging and making money online. If you don't know about Daily Blog Tips I really recommend you that you check it out! :)

This new design gives this blog a fresh look, it's easier to read and the advertisements really work well on templates with white background and sidebars on both sides of the blog. Revenue is one of the biggest reason for changing the design. This blog receives high traffic every day and income is rising day by day. So I guess this will increase the revenue of this blog a little bit more :)

I am still working on some minor changes in the layout and I will ad some very cool features and plugins in the short feature that all Squidoo lensmasters and marketers would most certainly love to use. Stay tuned for new updates and tools for Squidoo.

The main reason for this change is my goal to put this blog to a whole new level. I know that frequency of the posts on this blog doesn't quite go along with the title and my main goal is to change this. I am quite good at Squidoo now and I can say that I'm making good money there. So I have plenty of tips and advices to share with you. Therefore I decided to actually post a tip or article every day so this blog will actually be DAILY Squidoo tips. I hope this will increase both traffic and revenue even more.

I hope you like the new look. Stay tuned for some cool Squidoo tips in the future. Every day, I promise :)

Tibi Dress

Let me present you a brand new lens of mine. It's about fashion and a great dresses called Tibi dresses. Really high quality and beautiful dresses and other apparel from Tibi fashion line. Below is a picture that shows a random Tibi dress and if you want to check out more Tibi dresses and apparel please check out my newest lens Tibi Dress and find you favorite Tibi dress and buy it online for you or for your loved ones.

Happy Halloween is a new Squidoo Magazine

Squidoo has a new magazine and few lensmasters received a message yesterday that some of our lenses were moved to this cool new magazine. Happy Halloween magazine is all about Halloween, it's a blog-like page and it's a very cool move made by Squidoo in time of preparation for this holiday. Affiliate marketing earnings sykrock during Halloween and Christmas and therefore this move is really nice decision and it will surely benefit for many lensmasters and bring more money in their accouts.

Go to Happy Halloween magazine and see it for yourself. The page has a really nice design, is well structured, easy to browse and it already have a lot of relevant and cool content. So I guess this will benefit for our rankings too.

Below are some highlihts of this magazine. Things that I personally love and miss on this new Squidoo feature. Hope they'll add these things in the future :)

Things I like on Happy Halloween magazine

• Design
• Advertising placement
• Facebook connection

Things I miss on Happy Halloween magazine

• Lensrank information on the lens

My Squidoo lenses on Happy Halloween magazine

• Donnie Darko Halloween Costume
• Sexy Cop Costumes

Varolo - make money watching commercials

So I stumbled upon this amazing and cool site called Varolo. It's an amazing money making opportunity where you can actually make money by watching cool commercial online and referring your friends to the network. The circle of your referrals is called your own "Varolo village" and you get all the earnings from your village plus you can get a weekly jackpot that is always more than $500 and users get it every week! It's no SCAM and it really works.

I made a Squidoo lens to introduce this awesome new money making system called Varolo. On the lens Make money with Varolo you can learn more about the program and learn hot to make money with it. Check out the lens and see for yourself!

Make money with Varolo

Backlinking strategy for Squidoo lenses

We all know how important SEO and backlinks are for your Squidoo rankings and your Squidoo earnings. There are numerous articles and tips about backlinks and search engine optimization that will help your lens to be seen on the first page of Google and if you want to achieve this goals you can find all the answers by browsing through the Answer Deck on Squidoo and search for SEO related lenses. If you want to make some money creating backlinks for your lenses please check out my lens Make Money with Backlinks.

Below is a simple but very powerful image that shows a link wheel for the best backlinking strategy that will boost the ranking of your lens on Squidoo and surely get your lens found in all major search engines. Click the image to view it in full size and than save it on your computer. Print it if you want. Put it on the wall near your computer. This is the ultimate strategy for creating a good SEPO strategy and using free sites for creating high quality backlinks and boost your lens rankings and earnings.

The main page in the image represent your chosen Squidoo lens in our example. The image shows the best blogging platforms, article submission  sites, bookamrking sites and some other SEO tools that you need to link from in order to start a great SEO strategy for your Squidoo lenses. Put some work into this strategy and I can assure you that your lensrank will boost very soon!

100,000 Points on Squidoo

Not a big achievement but it's a cool fact to share with you all :) I just reached 100,000 points on Squidoo. Nice number :) I'm going to reach 200,000 now :) Below is the screenshot.

How to Check out Page Rank of your Lenses

Webmasters and bloggers know that page rank is an important part of SEO and it also benefits for advertising reasons. In this post I want to show you an awesome tool to quickly check out page rank of any website, blog or Squidoo lens.

If you're making Squidoo lenses to support your blogs and other projects than it's quite cool if you have lenses with high page rank and links from these lenses to your other online projects. Google simpatize with these pages and you will improve positions of your pages in search results.

A lot of advertising network also rank their publishers based on page rank of their submitted sites. Some of them even reject your submissions if your website don't have a required page rank for qualification. This comes handy if you try to monetize your Squidoo lenses with some other affiliate and advertising networks.

So how to check out page rank of your lenses? Simple! Check out free Page Rank Tool. You can go to the page and check it there or use the embedded tool below. Just enter the link of your Squidoo lenses and click "Check PR" button. That's it, you're done!

Check Page Rank of your Web site pages instantly:

This page rank checking tool is powered by Page Rank Checker service

Google +1 button is now live on all featured lenses

Great news for wall Squidoo lensmasters who are not in the Giant Squid club yet! Squidoo recently added almighty Google +1 button to all featured lenses so this cool little button is now live on your lenses marked green! That's surely a great news and a great new feature!

Read the official announcement here.

So, what so you have to say about this new update? Do you think this new feature will bring more traffic to your lenses? Will you +1 your favorite lenses? I really want to see what you have to say about this cool new update...

Join Wizzley, Get Backlinks, Make money online!

So, Wizzley is a cool new publishing platform that's very similar to Squidoo and HubPages and it shares its advertising revenue with its members. I'm really sceptical about the flood of sites sharing their revenue because most of them are either scams or can make you a cent so I keep the distance from new revenue sharing sites and test them for some time to see if they're worth investing time and effort.

Wizzley seems OK, I'm there for 3 days, I wrote 2 articles and I'm already making some money. The platform is nicely desing, there are a lot of available widgets for you to use on your pages and they have any affiliate programs that can make you money. Wizzley offers you to make money with Google AdSense, Amazon Associates, AllPosters, Zazzle, eBay and Wizzley referral program. You add your own IDs and Wizzley shares 50% of impressions with you!

Wizzley is a great way to get some quality backlinks for your Squidoo lenses and make some extra money by creating quality backlinks and promoting your Squidoo lenses! Wizzley is PR 3 and it will most certanly grow in the future because the community is growing and it consists of a very cool folks who are writing really awesome content. So I guess it's worth staying and publishing. And we'll see about the money, so far so good :)

I suggest you to JOIN WIZZLEY to create some quality backlinks for your Squidoo lenses and to make some money with their wide selection of affiliate programs. I think that AllPosters widget is really tempting for many Squidoo members because you can really make some sales with AllPosters affiliate program and it's good for some free images for your pages. So check out Wizzley and see if it's OK for you.

Cool Anime GIFs with embed codes

I really like GIFs and my GIF lenses are bringing quite a lot of traffic and rank well. So I decides to make some more lenses with cool GIF animations and GIF related lenses. A lot of folks check out this stuff to put some cool gifs on forums and blogs, as they signatures and embed them on their websites and blog posts. And this is good for me and it's good for them :) They get a cool GIF and I get a free backlink! How? In the embed code for every GIF animation there is a link that points to the original lens on Squidoo so when somebody embed these gifs on their sites, blogs or forums they automatically link back to my Squidoo lens. And this is really good for backlinks and traffic. :) Offer some stuff with embed codes and you'll see for yourself!

So my newest lens is about Cool and Sexy Anime GIFs where you can find a lot of awesome and hot anime GIF animations and embed codes for each animations so you can add them to forums, blogs, etc.

August 2011 Squidoo Earnings

Here is my Squidoo payment for August 2011 (earned  in June 2011).

My August 2011 earnings are as follows from 90 featured lenses:

Grand Total ~ $156,17

I am really satisfied with this payment and I can't wait to receive my next payments :) You can compare this payment with the payment from May and you'll see the difference :)

5 Tier 1 Lenses! WOW!

Today is anoter day for celebrating :) I will surely drink a beer or two to celebrate the latest lensrank update on Squidoo :) I now have 5 lenses in Tier 1! 2 new tier 1 lenses in one lensrank update. Ben 10 Coloring  Pages and Me Gutsa Meme climbed up to tier 1 :) Awesome :)

So what have I done to reach this?

I think that two things count the most to get the best rank on Squidoo. Traffic and clickouts. I've done a little analysis of my top 5 lenses on Squidoo and this are the two things that they have in common. Traffic and clickouts. My top lens that is ranked #130 doesn't have a single sale in almost a year. It doesn't have much backlinks! But it receives 10.000 views per week and few thousands clickouts per month. And it's my best lens.
I compared this lens to my other 4 tier 1 lens and they all have quite a lot of traffic and a lot of clickouts. Not as much sales, backlinks and likes. So I guess this is it.n Clickouts and traffic.

Increase Clickouts and Traffic to Improve your Rankings

I will surely work hard to improve next 5 lenses that rank best in tier 2 to get them into Tier 1. And you should work on your lenses too to get better rankings and get more money from AdPool. And you can see that sales and likes don't count that much in terms of overall rankings so be sure to concentrate on traffic and clickouts. Be sure to add Link List Module, Link Voting module, Amazon Modules and include related and interesting links in your text modules, pools and intro. This will surely increase the number of your clickouts and improve your rankings. Try it and observe!

Me Gusta Meme

Do you like internet memes and other cool funny stuff that become popular on the web? If you do than you're probably already familiar with Me Gusta Guy, a very popular internet meme from the big family of cool characters that also feature Troll Guy, Forever Alone, Challenge Accepted and Poker Face.

I made a Squidoo lens especially for Me Gusta Guy Meme where you can find out all the info you need about this popular internet meme, check out some funny Me Gusta Comics, visit my Zazzle store that features a lot of Me Gusta Meme products and find some related links to browse through big galleries of Me Gusta Memes.

I hope you'll find the lens interesting and funny :) And if you do you can leave a comment to share your thoughts on Me Gusta Guy.

My New Squidoo Lenses

It's time to update you with my new Squidoo lenses. Published in the last week or so. I'm working hard creating new lenses and I am working on a lot of lenses related to digital photography and DSLR cameras.

My new lenses on Squidoo

• Underwater Photography
• Sexy Anime
• Zoo Tycoon 2
• Pink Floyd Comfortably Numb
• Make Money with iStockPhoto
• Top 10 Microstock Sites
• Best Watches for Men

Any comment is much welcomed. Here or on the lens.

Best AdSense Ad Ever!

I was working on one of my lenses today and I stumbled on a very cool ad from Google AdSense. Quite awesome, it screams for clicks and it seems like it is designed for Squidoo.

Click the screenshot above to view the image in full size. Now see the "Don't click" AdSense ad just below My Toolbox etc. See how colours match and it's quite the same button as default Squidoo "Create a lens!" button. And there is a psychology effect that most certainly generates a lot of clicks. Forbid people from doing something and they will want to do this even more! Quite interesting.

A Few Fun Facts About Squidoo

Below are some cool and fun facts about Squidoo.

1. Squidoo has been reviewed by the New York Times, Mashable, BoingBoing and sites and papers around the world.
2. Squidoo was founded in 2005 and was live to the world in 2006. The founding team consisted of just four people. In 2011 they are only at 6 full time people.
3. Squidoo is on the list of the most 100 most popular websites in the US, ranked by Quantcast traffic.
4. Squidoo generates hundreds of thousands of dollars in annual royalties to charities and to our users.
5. There's a Squidoo cookbook! In early 2009 Seth and Megan wrote The Joy of Squidoo: A Recipe Book for Great Lenses.
6. Many lensmasters earn more than $10,000 a year from Squidoo. Some make $100. Others are happy with $40 or $4. Lots give it to charity.
7. As of October 2010: More than one million people visit Squidoo (that means your lenses) every day. The more traffic one lens brings in, the greater the chances that visitor will see your lens as well. That means it's good for you when your competition on Squidoo succeeds.
8. Squidoo is free to use.
9. Many of Squidoo lensmasters earmark their earnings for charity, and the Squidteam also makes donations to worthy causes throughout the year. So far, Squidoo has generated more than $500,000.00 to charities around the world, including Acumen Fund, charity: water, Room to Read, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and literally hundreds of others.

Source: Getting Started with Squidoo

3 Ways to Sell your Photos Online

I made a brand new lens about photography, selling photos online and making money online with your photos. In this lens I describe 3 best ways to make money online with photography and sell photos online on microstock sites, Zazzle or your own website and blogs. In this lens you will find lots of information and resources thath will help you to start making money online with your photos. The lens is equipped with links, resources, videos and text guides to introduce you to stock photography and other ways to sell photos online and make money with your photography on the Internet.

3 Ways to Sell your Photos Online

New Milestone Reached - 10.000 Weekly Visits

New success on Squidoo! I finally reached more than 10.000 overall visits of my lenses. The best lens generated more than 6000 views and others add to the 10k milestone. Below is the screenshot for proof. Click on the image to view it in full size.

Celebrating my 3rd Tier 1 Lens!

My Squidoo 60 Day Challenge has ended and I will post all the stats and updated tomorrow on this blog. But first, let me just say that I now have 3 tier one lenses on Squidoo! This is a very great news for me :) Two months ago my best ranked lens was a little above 5000. So having three tier 1 lenses now is a great success.

My third tier 1 lens is Top Rated Digital SLR Cameras 2011.

Again, backlinks on related sites worked really well. Backlinks increased traffic and ranking and my overall rank for this lens jumped overnight.

Funny Animated GIFs

It's time to present another lens of mine. The lens titled Funny Animated GIFs is a page where you can find lots of funny GIF animations and other animated pictures that you can add to your blogs, sites and forums by using the provided embed codes.

Check out the lens Funny Animated GIFs and find you favorite gif. Then copy the code below the animation and paste it anywhere you want. You can also browse the big resource of links where you can find thousands more of these funny and cool animated GIFs. You will most surely find one or two that you'll like :)

Some cool funny animations from the lens

Another Tier 1 Lens!

Great news! Another lens of mine just climbed into the Tier 1 and now I can count 2 of my lenses in this tier :) This is indeed a great reason for a little celebration.

This is one step closer to my goals for Squidoo 60 Day Challenge. I know I won't reach 10 Tier 1 lenses till 1st of July, but I have two Tier 1 lenses now and other are ranking higher and higher every day. So I'm really optimistic about other lenses as well. I think I can reach 10 lenses in Tier 1 till the end of this summer.

The lens I'm talking about is 10 Best Selling Laptops 2011. Why it's in the Tier 1? Backlinks with proper anchor tags, quite a lot of sales, nice traffic stats and constant updates. I redesigned a lens a little, added some text and new modules and implement RSS feeds for best selling laptops from Amazon directly into the lens. And the lensrank sky-rocked by the night :)

I will do some studies to see which site brings the most traffic and which backlinks are performing well and then I post my experiences here.

2 New Lenses

I want to present my two new lenses. Brand new, pretty cool and filled with information and content.

1. Sexy Anime Figurines

Anime figures and manga figurines are making me quite a lot of money on Squidoo and sales are pretty great. Traffic is rising day by day and lenses about the topic rank high. That's why I decided to make a small network of lenses for this niche. I hope I will increase my earnings by doing so.

Sexy Anime Figurines is a lens about cool and attractive anime figures that you can buy online for affordable prices. These figurines are really awesome, high quality products and designed in details. If you love anime and figurines combined with beauty and babes than this page will fit you just fine! Browse the lens and find the best anime figurines.

2. Top 10 Digital SLR Cameras 2011

I made a list of best selling and top rated DSLR cameras in 2011. I love photography, I'm experimenting with stock photography and I'm making money online selling photos and stock photos. And every photographer knows that a quality digital SLR camera is one of the strongest weapon in photography if you want to make high quality photos.

Check out the lens Top 10 DSLR Cameras and find the best digital SLR cameras available on the market right now. You'll see that these cameras are really affordable and are worth their price!

Introducing The New Giant Squid Club

Some big changes are coming to Giant Squid Club on Squidoo. Squidoo recently sent an email to all who sent an application to join Giant Squid Club and introduce the new changes in the program and new minimums for joining the program.

In this post I want to present these new changes and new standards for new Giant Squids.

The 3 things you need to know:

1. Squidoo is asking all those who recently sent an application to join the Giant Squid Club to fill out a new application form. Anyone who doesn't apply here won't be considered for the Giant Squid Club.

Here is the application to fill out: https://squidoo.wufoo.com/forms/join-the-giant-squid-club/

2. You only have to have 25 lenses, not 50, in order to apply! But wait. That does mean it's easier to get in. In fact, Squidoo have even higher standards of quality for those 25 lenses. They also need to be published, featured (not Work in Progress), and so good you want to share them with the others.

Let's say you have 54 published & featured lenses, but maybe you rushed a bit to get them done by the June 30 Giant Squid deadline. Maybe they're not all quite as good as you'd like. You caught a break! If you have at least 25 that are insanely great, then you're ready to apply.

On the other hand, if you've been working since March and have 115 superstar lenses, then you can apply for 'Giant 100' right away and get the perks for that level if you're approved.

3. There are no more deadlines. You can apply whenever you are ready, whenever you are certain your lenses are really strong. So take your time, no rushing, no all-nighters. Just good solid lenscrafting.

Read more about the changes and new Giant Squid Club in this post on Squidoo HQ blog.

7 eBay Purchaces in 2 Days!

My lens Pink Floyd Action Figures is climbing up the letter and making sales and gaining rank. In fact, it made 7 eBay sales in the last 2 days. I was thinking about removing my eBay modules from my lenses but now I see that they worth something :)

Below are stats for this lens. You can see the eBay purchaces.

iSteve: The Book of Jobs

I made a new lens dedicated to one of the most wanted books right now, The Book of Jobs. The book of Jobs or iSteve is a biography about Steve Jobs, the founder and CEO of Apple.

On the lens you can find all the important information about the book and the author, the latest news about the book and some links for further reading and stores where you can purchase the book.

Visit my lens Steve Jobs Biography.

You can pre-order the book now to get a special discount so check out the lens to find more info.

Google +1 Button is now live on Squidoo!

Google recently offered bloggers and sites to add its +1 Button to their articles and content. Google +1 button is a simple bookmarking button, very similar to Facebook Like Button, that can help both bloggers and users to promote and explore good content. If you want to know more about this new Google feature please read my article Google +1 Button for Bloggers on my blog Blog of Zoso.

Google +1 Button is currently available just for Giant Squids.You can read the official announcement about this new feature and testing on Squidoo HQ Blog.

How Can This Improve My Lenses?

If you +1 a lens it will be recommended to your community and friends. So if your friends search for a specific keyword related to your lens, your lens will appear higher in search results and Google will show your recommendations to your friends and your network. This can help you to increase your traffic and gain some quality readers that are interested in the topics you're covering. People will more likely to check out something that someone has recommended to them.

What Google says
Here’s what Google has said about their goals and how this might positively affect SEO:

Content recommended by friends and acquaintances is often more relevant than content from strangers. For example, a movie review from an expert is useful, but a movie review from a friend who shares your tastes can be even better. Because of this, +1′s from friends and contacts can be a useful signal to Google when determining the relevance of your page to a user’s query. This is just one of many signals Google may use to determine a page’s relevance and ranking, and we’re constantly tweaking and improving our algorithm to improve overall search quality. For +1′s, as with any new ranking signal, we’ll be starting carefully and learning how those signals affect search quality.

Example
You’ll see the +1 button on Giant Squid lenses, next to the existing Facebook and Twitter social sharing buttons. New button looks like this:

The Google +1 button on a Giant Squid's lens

What do you think about this new feature? Do you think this new button will help to grow your traffic and rankings? Share your thoughts in comments.

Article Directories List

Here is the list of the best Article Directories you can use to promote your Squidoo lenses and get some high quality backlinks, improve your ranking and get more traffic. It's cool to use as many as you can, write a nice article and then include a link to your original lens on Squidoo.

1. Ezine Articles
2. Articles Base
3. Suite101
4. Buzzle
5. Helium
   
6. Go Articles
   
7. Article Snatch
   
8. Article Alley
   
9. Article Dashboard
10. Self Growth
11. Idea Marketers
12. Amazines
    
13. i Snare
14. Search Warp
15. Article City
16. Sooper Articles
17. Article Click
18. Article Rich
19. Article Cube
20. A1 Articles
21. Article Stars
22. Submit Your Articles
23. ABC Article Directory
24. Web Source
25. Article Compilation
26. Articles Factory
27. Article Pool
28. Evan Carmichael
29. Site Reference
30. Article Splash
31. UPublish
32. ACME Articles
33. e-Articles
34. Article Nexus
35. The Whir
36. 990m
37. Articles Alley
38. Four PX Articles
39. Article Cell
40. Article Bliss
41. Article Monkeys
42. Every Query
43. Article WareHouse
44. The Content Corner
45. Articles Just 4 You
46. Article Wheel 
47. Affsphere
48. 365 Articles

Big redesign of Squidoo Lenses

Squidoo made some big changes this week and they redesigned the look of the lenses, added some new feautures and removed some previous features. You can read the official announcement of these changes in their blog post.

The majority of changes don't really affect anything, some new features are really great but some cool things has been removed. Below you can see what new and what's not there anymore.

New feaures on Squidoo Lenses:

• Tweet button and Facebook Share button are added to lenses
• 3 brand new (and really nice) templates

R.I.P. features on Squidoo:

• Fan clubs are gone
• You can no longer add lenses to your favorites
• Some html attributes are no longer allowed in custom bio on your lenses
• Lensrolling is no more

Will these changes really affect SEO, traffic and overall rankings? Maybe. We can't say this yet. I really like new sharing buttons and overall look of lenses. I'll sure miss fan clubs and favirte lenses. But one things is for sure - we need some time to accpet new changes, Squidoo is still an awesome site!

And now I want to hear from you! What do you think about new design and features on Squidoo lenses? Do you like them? Do you miss something? Would you recommend something to Squidoo? Share you comments!

3 New Lens Themes

Squidoo introduced three new lens themes and now has 24 lens themes total! This is great way to breathe some freshness in your old lenses or make a new lenses with these brand new designs.

Read the official announcement of this update here.

Below you can see these three new lens themes, their screenshots and some cool features.

1. Big Squid

Big Squid is a brand new lens with Squid in it. Awesome and clean design which is the best choice if you're making a lens about Squidoo, Squidoo tips and topics related to Squidoo.


2. Algae

Algae is a very clean and easy to read theme.

3. Blueprint

Blueprint is a blue theme with blueprint design. Great for lenses about science and technology.

May 2011 Squidoo Earnings

Here is my Squidoo payment for May 2011 (earned  in March 2011).

My May 2011 earnings are as follows from 71 lenses:

Grand Total ~ $66.27

I am really satisfied with this payment and I can't wait to receive my next payments because I really work hard on my lenses since March so I expect bigger payment every future month.

My First Tier 1 Lens

My hard work and a lot of coffee finally took me somewhere on Squidoo. By following tips from some succesful lensmasters and building a network of quality backlinks I manage to move one of my lenses to Tier 1. For those who don't know what Tier 1 is, this is a group of Squidoo lenses with rankings from 1 to 2000. These lenses get the most from advertising revenue each month and April payment for tier 1 lenses was a little less than $30. So you see, it's really good to have some lenses in the highest tier on Squidoo.

The lens I am talking about is Funny and Cool Facebook Status Updates where I made a list and resources of ideas for funny and inspirational ideas for Facebook status updates. Facebook is a trending topic right now and people search for pages with stuff for their Facebook wall. And it seems that a lot of folks like my lens.

5 things that made this happen

1. Backlinks. I made a lot of quality backlinks on different sites. I wrote a unique description on each bookmarking site and add a link to my lens on Squidoo. I also submit these other links with more unique description so I build a small but powerfull network of links pointing to my original lens.
2. Promotion. I promoted the lens on Facebook and Twitter and the news is spreading real quick. My traffic skyrocked and I am happy to announce that I will hit 3000 weekly views.
3. Fresh Content. I added some fresh content to the lens and reorganize my modules so it looks better. New content really boosted its rank.
   
4. Links. Added two capsules for featured links on the lens where I listed links with more sites that offer ideas for Facebook updates. Because the links are related to my lens and people are interested in them the lens have a lot of clickouts and high CTR. This really improve raking.
5. Tags. I first made some research about tags on Squidoo and modified tags for this lens a little. I used tags really related to the lens and traffic really increased because of this.

I hope you will find some of these tips useful. I am still learning about Squidoo ranking so I can't tell for sure what is the most important for a good ranking but when I'll know for sure I'll be happy to let you know.

Getting in Tier 1 is a first big step in my Squidoo 60 day challenge where I intend to build 10 lenses in Tier 1. So this is a first step and 9 remain. But I am exited and really happy to have a lens in Tier 1! And some other lenses are climbing really fast so with some work I expect to have at least 3 more Tier 1 lenses in a week or so.

Great Ben 10 Coloring Pages

I think it's appropriate to post my brand new lenses here from time to time. In the 60 Day Squidoo Challenge I plan to make some new lenses and I think it's cool if I post a quick note about them on this blog. For promotion, traffic and links :)

I made a new lens about Ben 10. I quite like this cartoon and I know that lots of you like it too so I made a new lens about it. In this lens you can find some really great Ben 10 coloring pages for you or for your kids to color and have fun with. There are free printable coloring pictures of Ben 10 on the lens and there are also a lot of useful links to external sites where you can find even more Ben 10 coloring pages, free to download and have fun with!

Great Ben 10 Coloring Pages


Check the link above and you will see if you like these coloring pages. I also included some related lenses where you can find tons of coloring pages of any kind if you are a fan of coloring or your children are.

My Top 10 Lenses about Making Money Online

Making money online is pretty hard, it takes a lot of patience, knowledge and hard work. But when you start making some real money online it becomes quite interesting, fun and exciting :) Squidoo can make you a lot of money online if you work hard on your lenses and if you have patience to wait for thing to start happening.

But there are a lot of other great ways to make money online and that's why making money online is one of my favorite and main niche on Squidoo. I made a lot of quite interesting and useful lenses on Squidoo related to making money online, money making programs and tips to make money online. And here is the list of my Top 10 lenses related to making money online. I hope you'll like them :)

1. More Than 50 Ways to Make a Dollar a Day Online
A list with more than 50 sites where you can make some real money online. Different categories, lots of tips and sites that will help you start making $50 per day with some work and learning.


2. How to Make Money with Photos
On this lens you can find sites where you can make money with your photography.


3. Make Money with Adfoc.us
Adfoc.us is a great service where you can make money sharing shrinked links on the Internet.


4. Make Money with Chitika
Chitika is a great AdSense alternative used by Squidoo and thousands of bloggers and webmasters.


5. Make Money with Adf.ly
Adf.ly is another great service that will pay you to share your shrinked links online.


6. How to Make Money with Backlinks
Tips and sites that will help you to make money by creating quality backlinks. This will increase your traffic, improve your SEO and make you some extra money online.



7. Squidoo Referral Program
Squidoo has a great referral program that can help you to increase your Squidoo earnings by referring your friends to Squidoo.



8. Make Money on Twitter with SponsoredTweets
SponsoredTweets is a great service that will pay you to tweet sponsored tweets on Twitter.



9. Make Money Online with RedGage
RedGage is a great site where you can make money by submitting photos, videos, blogs and links.



10. Make Money on Twitter
Useful lens about making money on Twitter. Tips and great sites that will help you to monetize your Twitter account.

Squidoo 60 Day Challenge

I'm working on my own Squidoo 60 Day Challlenge.A challenge when I want to see if I can really achieve something real with this Squidoo things and increase my earnings to some nice monthly number.

Check out my lens Squidoo 60 Day Challenge for more info, updates and inspiring comments :)

My main goals in this challenge:

1. I want to Make 10 Tier 1 lenses
2. I want to Make 30 Tier 2 lenses
3. I want to Make 40 Tier 3 lenses
4. I want to start selling at least 2 Amazon products per day
5. I want to start selling at least 1 iTunes song per day
6. I will try to become a Giant Squid with my work during the challenge
7. I want to reach the Highest Level on Squidoo
8. I want to grow my fan club and get 500 Fans on Squidoo
9. I want to get a Purple Star :)
10. I want to increase my weekly traffic to 10.000 or more per week

So these are my main ten goals for this Squidoo 60 Day Challenge. I will work hard and try to achieve most of these goals in 60 days or less. And then stay there :) On the lens about the challenge you can find my progress and see where I'm going with tiers and stuff.

And a little more about earnings. My ideas is this: If I create 10 Tier 1 lenses, 30 Tier 2 lenses and 40 Tier 3 lenses I will increase my earnings from Squidoo ad sharing to app. $400 per month.

I hope you like this challenge and you'll check out my lens to see my progress and experiences. I will share my experiences and updates here and on the lens so bookmark them for further reading and updates if you're interesting in this challenge yourself.

Tools and Resources for Squidoo Lensmasters

Ok, let's first list some tools and resources that will surely help you to make better and wonderful Squidoo lenses and optimize them well. Squidoo can be quite difficult if you want to add some style and design to your lenses because this requires some CSS and HTML knowledge. So if you're not familiar with coding or if you want to simplify your Squidoo experiences these tools can really help you to make better lenses.

Check out my lens Tools and Resources for Squidoo Lensmasters and find the best tools to use on Squidoo. I listed a lot of really helpful lenses from fellow lensmasters where you can find a lot of useful and helpful tips and tools for Squidoo deigns, graphics for Squidoo and tips that will help you with CSS and HTML.

On the lens you can find the following:

• Tools for Squidoo
• Best Tools for Squidoo
• RSS tools and tools for Selling modules
• Traffic and SEO
• Squidoo Directories
• Submit to Search Engines
• HTML and CSS
• Graphics for Squidoo
• Making Money on Squidoo
• Best Money Making Squidoo modules
• Best Tips for Lensmasters
• Squidoo tips from Bloggers
• Addons for Your Lenses
• Books about Squidoo

 Image credit: SquidArt Too by Steve Thompson

Welcome to Daily Squidoo Tips

Hello and welcome on Daily Squidoo Tips!

This is the very fist post on this blog so I will introduce myself and made few intro points regarding this blog.

My name is Tilen Hrovatic and I'm an active Squidoo lensmaster. I made more than 150 lenses, a majority of them are high ranked and I'm making money on Squidoo. You can view my Squidoo profile here.

This blog is dedicated to Squidoo and those who like Squidoo and want to learn more about it. I will share my tips about making money on Squidoo, SEO for Squidoo and other Squidoo related tips here. I will try to share my experiences and things I've learned from being an active Squidoo lensmaster for some time. I want to share tips that will help you to make some real money on Squidoo and optimize and promote your Squidoo lenses so they will be attractive to visitors and search engines.

Expect daily posts on this blog. This blog is called Daily Squidoo tips and I will stick to the schedule and post every day, so there will be a lot of useful articles and resources here after some time :)

I hope you'll like this blog and my posts. You can subscribe to the blog (widget in the sidebar and FeedBurner E-mail subscription) to receive the updates and stay informed about Squidoo tips.

Have a nice day!